Fish Species of Barnegat Bay
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Alectis ciliaris - African pompano
Alosa psuedoharengus - Alewife
Ameriurus catus - White catfish
Anchoa hepsetus - Striped anchovy
Apeltes quadracus - Fourspine stickleback
Bairdiella chrysoura - Silver perch
Caranx hippos - Crevalle jack
Chasmodes bosquianus - Striped blenny
Conger oceanicus - Conger eel
Dactylopterus volitans - Flying gurnard
Engraulis eurystole - Silver anchovy
Etrumeus teres - Round herring
Fundulus diaphanus - Banded killifish
Fundulus majalis - Striped killifish
Gobiosoma bosc - Naked goby
Gobiosoma ginsburgi - Seaboard goby
Hypsoblennius hentz - Feather blenny
Leiostomus xanthurus - Spot
Lopholatilus chamaeloeonticeps - Great northern tilefish
Membras martinica - Rough silverside
Menticirrhus saxatilis - Northern kingfish
Micropogonias undulatus - Atlantic croaker
Morone saxatilis - Striped bass
Mustelus canis - Smooth dogfish
Ophidion marginatum - Striped cusk eel
Peprilus tricanthus - Atlantic butterfish
Pogonias cromis - Black drum
Prionotus carolinus - Northern searobin
Raja erinacea - Little skate
Scophthalmus aquosus - Windowpane flounder
Sphoeroides maculatus - Northern puffer
Stenotomus chrysops - Scup
Syngnathus fuscus - Northern pipefish
Tautogolabrus adspersus - Cunner
Trinectes maculatus - Hogchoker
Alosa aestivalis - Blueback herring
Alosa sapidissima - American shad
Ameriurus nebulosus - Brown bullhead
Anchoa mitchilli - Bay anchovy
Archosargus probatocephalus - Sheepshead
Brevoortia tyrannus - Atlantic menhaden
Centropristis striata - Black sea bass
Chilomycterus schoepfi - Striped burrfish
Cynoscion regalis - Weakfish
Dasyatis say - Bluntnose stingray
Esox americanus americanus - Redfin pickerel
Eucinostomus argenteus - Spotfin mojarra
Fundulus heteroclitus - Mummichog
Gasterosteus aculeatus - Three-spined stickleback
Hippocampus erectus - Lined seahorse
Ictalutus punctatus - Channel catfish
Lepomis gibbosus - Pumpkinseed
Lucania parva - Rainwater killifish
Menidia beryllina - Inland silverside
Merluccius bilinearis - Silver hake
Monacanthus hispidus - Planehead filefish
Mugil cephalus - Flathead grey mullet
Mycteroperca microlepis - Gag grouper
Opsanus tau - Oyster toadfish
Perca flavescens - Yellow perch
Pollachius virens - Pollock
Prionotus evolans - Striped searobin
Raja ocellata - Winter skate
Selene setapinnis - Atlantic moonfish
Sphyraena borealis - Northern sennet
Strongylura marina - Atlantic needlefish
Synodus foetens - Inshore lizardfish
Trachinotus carolinus - Florida pompano
Urophycis chuss - Red hake
Alosa mediocris - Hickory shad
Aluterus schoepfi - Orange filefish
Ammodytes americanus - American sandlace
Anguilla rostrata - American eel
Astroscopus guttatus - Northern stargazer
Caranx crysos - Blue runner
Chaetodon ocellatus - Spotfin butterflyfish
Clupea harengus - Atlantic herring
Cyprinodon variegatus - Sheepshead minnow
Elops saurus - Ladyfish
Etropus microstomus - Smallmouth flounder
Fistularia tabacaria - Bluespotted cornetfish
Fundulus luciae - Spotfin killifish
Gobiesox strumosus - Skilletfish
Hyporhamphus unifasciatus - Silverstripe halfbeak
Lagodon rhomboides - Pinfish
Lepomis macrochirus - Bluegill
Lutjanus griseus - Grey snapper (juveniles)
Menidia menidia - Atlantic silverside
Microgobius thalassinus - Green goby
Morone americana - White perch
Mugil curema - White mullet
Myoxcephalus aeneus - Grubby sculpin
Paralichthys dentatus - Summer flounder
Pleuronectes americanus - Winter flounder
Pomatomus saltatrix - Bluefish
Raja eglanteria - Clearnose skate
Scomber scombrus - Atlantic mackerel
Selene vomer - Lookdown
Squalus acanthias - Spiny dogfish
Symphurus plagiusa - Blackcheek tonguefish
Tautoga onitis - Tautog
Trachinotus falcatus - Permit
Urophycis regia - Spotted hake
